From our first date, we bonded on our love for data driven analyses. So we couldn’t think of a better way to explain our love than through a series of charts from data that we have collected from ourselves!

Neil utilizes data analytics with his MPH degree in Epidemiology from Colorado School of Public Health and job as a health researcher at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. Karina earned a MBA in finance from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and uses data analytics as a Senior Vice President on the investment team at Variant investments.

On our first date, at Stickman’s Brewery in Lake Oswego, OR, we shared how much we loved analyzing data, snowboarding, and exploring the Oregon nature.

On our second date, we hit golf balls at our local Topgolf driving range. Embarrassingly, Neil swung his driver into the ground and broke the head of the club completely off (broken club pictured below)

Somehow, even with the embarrassing miss-swing, The beginning of their relationship continued to stay on par. They continued the conversation at the Topgolf bar by discussing their favorite movies and other topics. Before the night ended, Karina and Neil shared an awkward kiss next to Karina’s car before taking off for the night.

Date 3 was a group date with some friends - the theme? Tiki bar hopping! We hopped around to all of the tiki bar themed bars in Portland. Check out the first photo of us together below!

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By the end of the night,

Every day we started to get to know each other more by texting, and continuing to go on dates.

Below are a series of charts we created from our text message data, travel data, Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort lift data, and more!

What is our texting like?

From the start, we began a relationship by texting back and forth. In the tabs below, you can see how our texting has changed at different points in time.

Quantitative Analyses

Total Number of texts Sent

Across Time

Overall

Average Character Count of texts Sent

Across Time

Overall

Qualitative Analysis

What words are we using most often while texting?

A timeline of our texting word usage

Separated by Neil and Karina

Overall

All of the Places we have visited since the start of our relationship

Hover over the markers to get information and see when we last visited each place!

Check Out How Much We Snowboard!

Take a look at the Runs!

Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort Runs on Google

Hover over the marker to see where we got engaged!

Mt. Hood Trail Map

How often did we take each of the chairlifts at Mt. Hood Meadows?

By Chairlift

In vertical feet gained

Hover over each square to see how much vertical feet we gained on each chairlift!

In number of runs

Hover over each square to see how many times we took each chairlift!

Lollipop Graphs

By Date

By Vertical Feet Gained

Hover over each dot to see how much vertical feet we gained and each date.

By number of Runs Completed

Hover over each dot to see how many runs we took and each date.

Macro indicators

S&P500

Dow Jones

Dow Jones